Egret-Hibernia(!), a significant petroleum system, northern Grand Banks area, offshore eastern Canada

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1203-1237

  Magoon, Leslie B ^a   Hudson, Travis L ^b   Peters, Kenneth E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Applied Geology Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; OFFSHORE OIL FIELDS; OFFSHORE PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; ROCK MECHANICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

GAS CONTENT; PETROLEUM SYSTEM; RESERVOIR ROCK; ROCK RICHNESS; SEAL ROCK; SYNDEPOSITIONAL FAULTING;

PETROLOGY;

HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GRAND BANKS; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 24644521126     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/05040504115     Document Type: Article

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